Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Every Tom, Deck and Harry speaks on the "Angolan War Against Islam".. As usual, no one searches roots, truth or facts..!! Then everyone of the 1.2 bln would cry against "Unfair" Islamophobia.. Then "Conservative" Muslim Funds will flood into those "Helpless" 90,000 Angolan Muslims, followed by "Unemployed" Jihadists..What a mental chaos we experience..!!Notably, all main media had ignored this overwhelming story..Now, someone would say: A Global conspiracy..!!The Greatest Enemy for Islam and Muslims is their own Islamic Media.. Spreading false and unauthentic news is only fueling hierocracy, anarchy and hooliganism among the 80% illiterate, poor and hopeless Muslims..!!I keep calling for governance, integrity and consciousness to form the code of conduction and professional ethics among Muslim Media Professionals, who are mostly "Unmuslim".. Unmuslim is my term for those Muslim who their Islam is barely a word of mouth.. not a mindful or a heartful.. They are not Infidel or apostate but "intentionally" hypocrite...

"The reports of mosques being dismantled have come under scrutiny, as a quick Google Images search shows that a photograph published by numerous news outlets this month that supposedly depicts the minaret of an Angolan mosque being dismantled in October 2012 had been published at least as far back as Jan. 23, 2008, when the Housing & Land Rights Network used it to illustrate an article about the demolition of Bedouin homes in Israel.."

When I read this article; I had recalled Jainism.. which its devotees strongly believe that the Earth is flat.. Jainism is a religious minority in India, with 4.2 million adherents, and there are small but notable immigrant communities in Belgium, Canada, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, and the United States. Jains have the highest degree of literacy of any religious community in India (94.1 percent), and their manuscript libraries are the oldest in the country. I do epistemically understand their views; yet unwilling to discuss..!!

In a perfect world, each map projection would be judged on its own merit and applied to the job that suits it best. But perfect worlds are boring. So why not put two projections in a good ol’ eye-gouging, tooth-chipping, back-alley fight for supremacy?

Our first matchup is between two projections that are well known among carto-geeks, but only get limited, sporadic attention from the public: The Cahill and Dymaxion projections. (You can vote for your favorite in a poll at the bottom of this post.)

This debate actually goes back to 1943, when R. Buckminster Fuller published his Dymaxion Map and proclaimed it superior to all others. Within weeks, the New York Timespublished a measured, indirect, and mostly ignored rebuttal, featuring Bernard J.S. Cahill’s Butterfly map. Fuller’s followers carried the Dymaxion torch blindly for decades, until Gene Keyes revived the debate in 1975 by refining the map a bit into the Cahill-Keyes projection. Keyes was a former Fuller acolyte himself, but was so moved by Cahill that he wrote a 46-page dissertation about the butterfly’s superiority. But Fuller’s legacy is strong, and the Dymaxion map has fresh vigor even now in the year of its 70th anniversary.

At a glance, both projections look like flattened Dragon Dice, but a comparison of the two is likely to stir up more nerd-rage than a top-ten list of the world’s worst dice. OK, so maybe this will be more thoughtful discussion than shirtless brawl, but these two projections were destined to go head-to-head.

Bernard J.S. Cahill lived in California in the early 1900s. He had many a beef with Mercator maps. In his 1909 paper introducing the butterfly, he spent the first five pages airing his grievances. For example, of the projection’s effect on South America he wrote: “The lower part is dragged down and thickened in appearance until the most beautiful of all the continents is deprived of much of its symmetry and elegance.” If you needed to navigate an ocean-voyage, Mercator was fine, but if you wanted to learn geography, the projection made continents look like thick-jawed, big-headed carnival caricatures.

As a remedy, he proposed skinning the globe into eight triangular lobes, a method invented by Leonardo Da Vinci. Rather than arrange them into a clover, as Da Vinci did, Cahill made a butterfly shape. He was interested in balance, and obsessed with his projection’s aesthetic. And his math was not too shabby either. The lobes – also called gores – are each exactly 90 degrees wide and run 10,000 km along the edge. There is practically no distortion along the edges of each lobe. The lines of latitude and longitude shrink towards the middle of each lobe. The overall effect is a map that can be scaled to any size, and errors that are easy to calculate and correct. Oh, and it looks absolutely beautiful.

R. Buckminster-Fuller once described himself as a “comprehensive anticipatory design scientist,” which sounds like the winning caption for a Cringe-Inducing Personal Branding contest. But Fuller actually lived up to his self-hype. He tackled housing, poverty, the environment, education, transportation, and energy. He’s best known for popularizing the geodesic sphere that lives on in such late 20th century icons as Epcot Center and the Astrodome.

The Mercator Projection was a mote in Fuller’s eye, too. He allegedly spent decades on his projection, eventually publishing it in 1943. Rather than go with one of the dozen highly regarded geographic journals of the day, Fuller unveiled his creation on the pages of Life magazine as a cut-and-paste project (true story).

He called it the Dymaxion map, a portmanteau that is supposed to evoke the words “dynamic, maximum, and tension.” Fuller projected the globe onto a modified isocahedron — Some of the 20 triangles on its face have been fused into squares, others are split in half. Like Cahill, he owed his invention to an early Renaissance genius, Albrecht Durer, who proposed the first unfolded isocahedron in 1538. Bucky loved the fact that he could present “Spaceship Earth” as a continuous archipelago, unbeholden to conventional notions of which way the continents should face.
No lie, it’s a cool way to view the world, but is it the best?

Because the 20-sided shape touches the globe at every vertex, both area and direction are nearly perfect throughout the map. Or, as the Buckminster-Fuller Institute website proclaims, “The Dymaxion projection is the only flat map of the entire surface of the Earth which reveals our planet as one island in one ocean, without any visually obvious distortion of the relative shapes and sizes of the land areas, and without splitting any continents.” That sentence is a masterpiece of superlatives, but has some well-concealed caveats. Consider the part about “no visually obvious distortion.” Depending on your definition of obvious, the map has a pretty serious flaw: too many triangles.

Monday, November 25, 2013

I have a fear of simply being a manager when I could be a leader. What’s wrong with a manager? Nothing, really; a good manager gets things done, makes sure people have the skills they need to be effective, includes everyone in big decisions, and satisfies the needs of his superiors. But there is nothing—dare I use the word?—inspirational about management.

Eisenhower’s Lesson

General Eisenhower observed that “leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.” This is more than just getting a job done; it is creating a passion for the job that didn’t previously exist. But if leadership is an art, it is also a science, something that can be identified, quantified, and replicated. Important principles of leadership can be learned and applied.
I coach speakers. I work with professional speakers and with people who present often as a sales enablement strategy. Having the opportunity to speak to a group is a great trust: we call it the “Privilege of the Platform.” But I regularly see that privilege wasted when it can be a powerful leadership opportunity. Even a chance encounter in the hall can influence behavior, using the same tools as a speech in front of four hundred people. Let’s look at three principles that apply to the lecture hall and the lunchroom.

Know Your Audience

What do they care about? What are their concerns and problems and needs? When you spend some time listening and understanding, you will have the ability to frame your discussion from their perspective. What are the benefits to them? A speaker has about 30 seconds to establish her credibility, and it’s not based on her degrees earned or books written! Leave that to the introduction. Instead, immediately show that you understand the audience and you have a solution for their need. That will make them care a lot more about listening to what you have to say than a recitation of your resume.
What about a one-on-one with your employee? In the same way, you will increase your influence by exhibiting understanding and interest in their work lives. Do you know what their greatest accomplishments and challenges are? The best compliment we pay anyone is to listen to them. That opens the door to influence by informing our understanding and creating a bridge of trust.

Create an Emotional Connection

This is critical to behavior change. Speakers do this by telling stories. If you want your audience to care about a key take-away, anchor it with a story. Stories are memorable and invoke emotion. Without that emotional connection, your audience may be interested, perhaps even fascinated, but it will never move to the level of motivating change. Remember, people buy on emotion and justify with facts.
I had a client in a very scientific, highly-regulated industry that said this didn’t apply to her groups; they were all scientists in new drug development and were only interested in facts. I asked her to tell me their greatest fear; she immediately replied that it was being shut down by the FDA. “Does that ever happen?” I asked. “Oh, yes, it can. That’s why our services are so important,” she answered. Bingo. When she described one instance of a research company that was shut down because they didn’t survive an audit, she evoked a visceral reaction in even the most staid scientist in the room. Then she moved on to the research findings, statistics, and other facts that met the needs of the audience, and her potential clients were much more attuned and emotionally connected to the solution she offered.
In the same way, you can use examples and anecdotes to help an individual see what success looks like, vicariously feel the sense of accomplishment that will come from the advised action, or understand the urgency of a situation and the need to respond with full commitment. Stories are memorable, and when we remember them we re-experience the feelings that they evoked.

Create a Clear and Agreeable Action Plan

The third principle is to create an action plan that is clear and agreeable to everyone. In a room with two hundred people, you can invite each person to write down one step that will focus their commitment into an identifiable behavior change. There may be as many different ideas as there are people in the room; the key is that they have bought into your ideas and they are envisioning how to make them a part of their life. They can put a reminder into their phone or schedule a time to expand on the plan. If you don’t do something to capture the energy and enthusiasm you’ve created, it will dissipate as soon as they walk out and start checking messages.
With a single employee, you can build on their enthusiasm and commitment to create an action plan to move forward and make changes, or begin a new initiative. You’ve listened closely to their needs, concerns, and aspirations; you’ve shown them what success will look like through examples and stories; now it’s time to support them as they create an action plan that is workable and exciting for them.
Influence isn’t a matter of standing at the podium or sitting in the comfortable chair on the power side of the desk; it is the ability to listen and observe, to connect to others on both an intellectual and emotional level; and to help them commit to the individual steps on the path that will lead them to personal and organizational success.

Saturday, November 23, 2013

KSA is mysterious, unknown and amusing for many people, even Arabs themselves..

However, inevitable changes are slow yet confirmed; despite the hurdles created by an area where civic officers were short to plan for the future..

Corrupt processes, plans, and officers are the true enemies for the hopeful new generations.. On parallel, there are many politicians, community leaders and enthusiastic ones who boost the change and modernization

Friday, November 22, 2013

I do not endorse associating Islam to Arabic Civilization, unless associating Christianity to European one.. Hindu to Indian, Buddhism to South Asian, Jewish to American or Communism to Soviet..!!Religions are Codes of Ethics, which would generally advise on behavior, obligations and integration.. They appreciate hard sincere effort, they endorse peaceful social values and recommend law and order..Islam may includes intellectual guidelines and glimpse of scientific merit.. which some brilliant Muslim scholars had taken to the next level of understanding, knowledge, innovation and "useful" creativity..Islam has set a restrict code on time, not to be wasted in non-useful efforts or activities.. Muslims are compulsory obliged to witness Allah swt in all their thoughts, deeds, and activities.. This why all Civic Properties were attached to Mosques.. Not the vs. versa as many would think..!!

Not all protests serve nobel values and legitimate demands; as many ill-motivated persons would use the event to exercise their own psychic anger and behavioral deformation to destroy properties and create chaos.. This is why Riot Control became an art to show authority, resilience, and mightiness; with aims not to capture but to defuse and weaken..Principles of Crowd Control are scientific and technical rather than random exercise of power.. Behavior Analysis plays the key role..

The Operational Codes are certainly open for innovative implementations as per the local culture and severity moods..

Failure to Control the Crowds would disturb the whole society and open the door for chaotic situations beyond any predictions or control..Poor Training of anti-riot squads is the kiss of death of public order..In a way, Arabic Spring was an excellent example of Crowd Control failure..!!

Sunday, November 17, 2013

Many years ago, when I was an active teenager, I had suddenly discovered the beauty of "Gray Clouds"..! That was in a winter time of Cairo 1972: the birth of my "London" dream..! I had attempted to study, travel and settle, but these were too big dreams for a Sudanese teenager.. Decades later, I was able to serious pursue.. inshaallahAlong the years, more reasons and rationales had made me attached to this Megapolis.. Not on the urbanity I realized later, but those features synonymous to itYes, Gray and Dark, which had made many migrants and few native depressed..Yes, Wet and Unpredictable that made outdoor planning a controversy..Yes, Downtown is Old and Tight, which is not accustomed to private cars..Maybe, because my "Black" genes make my eyes sensitive to brightness.. I feel more fresh, alert and awake at the "Gray" scenes..However; undoubtedly, colors and shades are more visible and meaningful at Cloudy rather than Sunny landscapes..

Cold and Wet weather had enforced better build solutions, which inevitably developed different courses of economic, industrial and business growth.. Enforcing inventions and innovations that are based on forensic and empirical referrals..Similarly, the Cold and Wet offer no opportunity for laziness or relaxation.. Therefore, Britishness is about being prepared, walking fast, and embracing order.. These qualities had accustomed the mindset and intellectual foundation of both society and individuals.. Communal necessities are shared or granted for active citizens, in order to sustain the performance of the national capitalist setup..

There are great differences between the British in-migration policies and the other "conceptual" European ones, particularly the "open" French.. Early British adventures around the world had developed early concepts of compulsory engagement and discretional vulnerability.. This how the Britishness became a cultural concept, still rejected by EDL and others.. People of Roman, Spanish and Russian heritage were the early to mix on the ground, followed by Caribbean, Indian and Americas.. The key is the bilateral defuse and melt rather than protectionism.. Also, these are the traps which had produced "Ghettos" within UK landscape......The famous Turkish writer Mehamet Muratilden had said:"London and Fog; when these two come together; it is time to be a Writer.."The time he spent studying in UK, had continued to live with him..!!

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Tuesday, November 5, 2013

I had a hot discussion with a friend of mine; on the root-causes of RE Bubble in Dubai.. The difference between polite and straightforward descriptions had already allowed for twisted definitions to rule and deformed concepts to function..!Certainly, who knows is far unequal to who doesn't.. Therefore, it is understandable why the ICT breakthrough did not help increasing the common knowledge, but the expansion of fun-times.. Check statistics of online gaming and entertainment among search engines..!I already endorse the notion that "Stupid" people, who happened to own fortunes, and don't do their own homework to validate their RE adventures, are causing the Real Estate (RE) dilemma.. They escalate the market; allowing the "Bad" guys of RE-Biz to grow and harm the overall economy.. In USA and most of G8; RE Frauds are Federal and Criminal offenses; which indefinitely prevent competition to public office.. It is a great moral and business pitfall..!RE Biz is based on End-users not Speculators.. The Rich-ones of Dubai had already "Flipped" the formula, allowing new element to disturb the RE market pricing.. They are hard working professionals; who know "Nothing" about RE, and never "Try" to know.. They are the target of the "Ridiculous" RE Marketing & Sales campaigns.. They are who had lost fortunes in 2009 Downturn, and would repeat it again.. This is what RERA try to rule and organize.. (RERA=RE Regulations Authority)On parallel; the "Gangsters" who outstandingly earn from money-laundry, people-trafficking and entertainment-services, have open eyes on both details and market facts.. Similarly the "Conscious" Industrialists who had carefully grown their own fortunes.. Both are not speculators, but professional investors..!It is not how smart those "Greedy" developers are, but how unethical; as every business endeavor should have code of ethics.. Not to earn on the expense of the ill-informed; who often does not know the appropriate cost or specifications.. This is criminal in the views of any good governance and best practices..Opportunism is not a sound professional or business model, despite how many already practice.. Procurement Governance is how to practice an open book business; whereas actual costs, profit and contingencies are debatable.. Yes, it is still problematic among G8, UN, WTO and EU; yet no one promotes otherwise..!

To make the world a better place, we need to stand firm for confirmed frameworks, against malfunctionalism and with enforced governance.. Making-money, Go-getting or Social Pragmatism are synonymous to unsustainability, abuse and fragmentation; which had already jeopardize human civilization..

Free broadband for all, and gigabit for those who can afford it.

Many Mayors are talking about Smart Cities.. and their dreams or plans to transform their own Megapolises.. This noise comes from Asia, Africa and Middle East.. Yet, almost none is capable to bring these words into reality.. It is all about the definition and what is meant by the Smart-City-ing..?

This is not about cheap digital devices, cyber tools, or software businesses.. It is about the freedom of information and connectivity to be granted to every citizen; which would enable smart use of civic and domestic utilities.. and eventually the progression of livelihood.. It is a Sociopolitics at the bottom line..

Usually the speechless achievers in London, New York, Sydney, Tokyo and Berlin.. who had already brought the future, and sustain it.. Now LA is providing a challenging example..

Los Angeles is about to unleash one of the most ambitious city-led broadband projects to date, with the goal of bringing fiber to all of its 3.5 million residents and all businesses.

Next month, the city plans to issue an RFP (request for proposals) "that would require fiber to be run to every residence, every business, and every government entity within the city limits of Los Angeles," Los Angeles Information Technology Agency GM Steve Reneker told Ars today. The City Council this morning unanimously voted to move forward with drafting the RFP and will vote again in a few weeks to determine whether it's ready for release, he said.

LA expects the fiber buildout to cost $3 billion to $5 billion, but the cost would be borne by the vendor. "The city is going into it and writing the agreement, basically saying, 'we have no additional funding for this effort.' We're requiring the vendors that respond to pay for the city resources needed to expedite any permitting and inspection associated with laying their fiber," Reneker said. "If they're not willing to do that, our City Council may consider a general fund transfer to reimburse those departments, but we're going in with the assumption that the vendor is going to absorb those up-front costs to make sure they can do their buildout in a timely fashion."

The new fiber network would offer free Internet access of 2Mbps to 5Mbps (possibly subsidized by advertising) and paid tiers of up to a gigabit. The fiber network would also power Wi-Fi hotspots in public areas.

The winning bidder would not be required to offer landline phone service or television, but it's likely that they would. "I would think that's how they'll justify the buildout, is being able to offer triple play [packages]," Reneker said.

Residential broadband in LA today typically ranges from 5Mbps to 50Mbps from the likes of AT&T, Time Warner, Verizon, Cox, and Charter. Gigabit speeds are available to businesses, but at a higher price than other communities, Reneker said. By expanding gigabit access and hopefully lowering the price, LA hopes to attract new entrepreneurs and keep existing businesses from leaving the city.

Reneker said the network would be open, meaning the vendor would have to sell access on a wholesale basis to other network providers that want to deliver services over the fiber. "We're not looking at trying to... be monopolistic and try to force anybody out of the market," he said. The winning bidder should make out well, though, as it would gain lots of new residential, business, and government customers.

The RFP would favor companies that can offer not only fiber Internet but also cellular service and data center hosting. That makes AT&T and Verizon possible candidates. In one potential scenario, the city would pay the winning vendor for its monthly broadband, phone, cellular, and data center needs. Los Angeles has 24 distributed data centers that it would like to modernize and consolidate while boosting disaster recovery and replication, so the data center component alone would be lucrative.

If you took out the cellular component, more companies beyond AT&T and Verizon could offer compelling bids, Reneker said. Time Warner, Cox, and Charter would be among those.
But Google Fiber in its current form wouldn't be considered. "They would have to change their business model," Reneker said of Google. "They only run residential. We're requiring a component for the business. That would be a new market for them. There are two things: would they be willing to change their model slightly, and also would they be willing to respond to an RFP? I don't believe they've responded to RFPs in the past in other communities, but they would need to here in Los Angeles."

This project was spearheaded by recently elected council member Bob Blumenfield and has the support of Mayor Eric Garcetti, Reneker said. Reasonable pricing for residents is important, as one-third of the city's population makes less than $45,000 a year. LA schools are also rolling out iPads to 650,000 students and struggling to ensure that everyone who gets one has affordable connectivity, he said. LA wants the winning bidder to make donations of home broadband equipment to nonprofits that distribute them to needy residents.

Once the RFP goes out, the city will take bids for three months. Contract negotiations with the winning bidder could "easily" take six to nine months because there will be numerous services, each with their own service-level agreements, according to Reneker.
It will be a lengthy process, but the time is right to get it started. "It just seems like now is a good time to give it a shot," he said.

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I take nothing as granted till proven reasonable.. Value questioning and rationalizing everything.. Therefore, knowledge is my core substance..
I am driven by Love.. in all forms and shapes.. yet not to downgrade it for materialistics or indecency.. This is how I realize the world, the people, and my Creator swt..!!

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يمكنك أن تدرس الله من خلال كل شيء وكل شخص في هذا الكون، لأن وجود الله لا ينحصر في المسجد، أو الكنيسة أو في الكنيس. لكنك إذا كنت لا تزال تريد أن تعرف أين يقع عرشه بالتحديد، يوجد مكان واحد فقط تستطيع أن تبحث فيه عنه، وهو قلب عاشق حقيقي، فلم يعش أحد بعد رؤيته، ولم يمت أحد بعد رؤيته. فمن يجده يبقى معه إلى الأبد"You can recognize God through everything and everyone in the universe, because the existence of God is not limited to the mosque, church or synagogue. But if you still want to know where exactly is His throne; there is only one place where you can be looking for; which is the heart of a true lover.. No one did live after observing the God.. No one did die after either.. Who finds Him; stays with Him forever.. "

A Worldly Sudanese..

A Sudanese with a Global core.. Realizing how the taste marvelously varies across Countries, Continents, Religions and Cultures.. Believing we have to share it.. Denouncing the 2011 Sudanese Partition.. Follow ‏@adilsud

The People of Sudan

I feel greatly proud as my 2009 poster is appreciated among many people, websites and imaginations.. This is my own personal FACE; till my wounded SUDAN is inevitably retrieved..

Today's Tomorrow..

Despite both pain and frustration: nurture the kids, incubate the poor and mentor the illiterate.. Pray for their tomorrow to be better than our today..!

Stigma 2016

Trump-zitional Shock..

Stigma 2015

It was not the indescribable and unimaginable flood of refugees to Europe, but the media pitfalls reflecting the historical suspicion among nations.. Europe can't be raped by who already been unknowingly raped..!!

Stigma 2014

The search for happiness continues with no predictions.. Technology breakthrough failed to make the people happier, and when surveyed it was Nepal scoring the peak.. The ultimate contemporary contradictions between science and faith..

Stigma 2013

The Lady in Red at Gezi Park of Taksim Square; is a Turkish symbol of resistance to defend their Cultured Livelihood and Universal Competences..!

Stigma 2012

When women are tortured, raped, imprisoned for been outspoken against injustices, the entire Sudanese society is stigmatized and condemned

Stigma 2011

I’m absolutely provoked..! An Egyptian Muslim-dressed-women Protester been stripped-naked by Egyptian army soldiers in Cairo, on 17th December 2011.. Maybe it was a foolplay, an awful plot or a real drama; but certainly was a Dawn of Chaos..

Welcome with Love..

My Friend: Don't visit unnoticed.. Please put a note, a comment or a follow.. Your amazing journey had brought you here.. I’d love to get to know you.. This is all what LIFE is about..!!

Come or Return..!!

Return (in repentance), return! Whatever you are, return! Even if you are an unbeliever or a Magian or an idol worshipper, return! This court of ours is not a court of despair.Even if you have broken your repentance a hundred times,return!

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Homosapian

My ancestors were not Apes..

Sorry Mr. Darwin, as the current known Mankind was created from Adam PBUH only 15,000 years ago..!!

HOMO-SAPIAN or Human were investigated to be 90,000 years old on earth, as evolution from HOMO-NEANDERTHALENSIS or Neanderthals..

The conflict between Religion and Science was and still confused as Children of Adam had groomed with existent Homosapians; which was never documented..

This is my own acceptable rationale to explain or resolve..

Regretfully, scientists with religious affiliations are few; which hindered many issues from elaboration.. Where Adam & Eve been on earth? Was Noah's Flood allover earth? What were the attributions of Adam & his immediate Children? Should we distinct Adam's Children from Homosapian?

There are a lot to question..!!

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Stop Violence Against Women

As a Muslim, I’m instructed to be gentle to women, as a Man, I’m obliged by good manners as well, and as a Human, I’m wondering why some men will behave alike psycho animals to them..?? There is a big wrong-thing with those bully-men; and it is time to stop such shame.. Pls support..!

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